Visitors from St Louis Highlight Local Social Notes
Miss Genevieve Jarvie visits Ai ALTOD. Mrs YL Raentemann and many others tour St Louis this week. Local residents and visitors attend flower shows, meetings, and family visits with kin in St Jacob, Aviston, O Fallon, Mount Olive, East St Louis, and Belleville. Fresh oysters and celery featured. blank notes and receipts offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genevieve Jarvie
Ai Altod and Beaddry
A. Kleist
Mt. Olive
Theodore
If. A. Canedy
Nellie Winston
St. Jacob
Geo. Liebler
County Cullenings And City Developments In Madison County
Numerous Madison area notes include Edwardsville’s eighteen labor unions and a Venice public school addition. A Fort Bureel farmer loses five head to unknown disease. burglary remains rampant in Edwardsville. Alton reports a timber wolf on Wood River. Madison firefighters disband for mismanagement. a new company to form. Newbern Brick Co plant sold to McNeil & Plumride of St Louis for overhaul. St Jacob hosts a successful Farmers Institute Chrysanthemum show. Chicken thieves drop a $60 pocket book near Liberty Prairie. Baptiste Benadette of Glen Carbon dies from mine injuries. interment at Collingville. John Ambuehl found dead at Decks Prairie. age 71. Two Polanders quarrel. one killed. killer jailed awaiting trial. Alton contemplates a new high school. Lincoln School overcrowding prompts action. Viking craft shown by Capt. Dyer draws public attention. Gertrude Robb of New Douglas dies after clothing fire. age eighteen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
Edwardsville
Alton
Wood River
Madison
Newbern Brick Co’s
McNeil & Plumride
St Louis
Farmer's Institute
Liberty Prairie
Baptiste Benadette
Glen Carbon
Collingville
R. of P. Lodge
John Ambuehl
Deck’s Prairie
Chris Mutzner
Yamrua
Board of Education
Lincoln School
Norway
D. A. Dyer
General News Mixed From Illinois Towns And Nearby Areas
A varied Illinois roundup notes a New Athena Business Men's League forming, Belleville resident Fred Scheel’s death, a rumor of Congressman Jett courting a political shift, a Chicago broom-corn trust, and Mattoon firefighter George Jones inheriting 2.5 million dollars and an English baronetcy. Other items include a fatal 22 caliber dispute among Mechanicsburg youths, Belleville streetcar strike pressures, a fruit evaporator operator in Bunker Hill stockpiling 28 000 pounds of dried fruit, and Eveless Adams’s odd matchmaking anecdote. Greenville Klondike fortune seeker Thos Rockwell returns home, Bond county plans a $3500 monument for soldiers and sailors, Alma Krieger’s shotgun accident near Staunton, marriage by assumed name in Greenville, Illinois independent telephone system growth, Belleville mayoral son George Winkler’s Philippines return with bride, Fr M Gill’s Decatur embezzlement arrest, a hot meteor rock in East St Louis nearby, St Clair county asylum intake limits, and a plan to rebury Pierre Menard’s remains before Fort Gage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Krieger
Staunton
Greenville
Finois
Geo. E. Winkler
Winkler
Belleville
Philippines
Samuel
Dle
San Francisco
Fr. M. Gill
Human Distillery of
St. Louis
Decatur
Ileix
East St. Louis
St. Clair County
Anna
Tims
Pierre Menard
Kaskaskia
Fort Gage
Pierre Menard Waar
Firat
Ilinois
Prairie Farmer seeks two men to sell subscriptions
The Prairie Farmer offers $2 to $5 daily through fall and winter in this county. Two reliable men are desired to handle subscription orders, with many already earning up to $4 daily and potential growth after the season starts. Send references and apply at 484 Adams Street, Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Farmer
Adams Street
Chicago
Administratrix Notice Estate of Elizabeth Stempler
Estate of Elizabeth Stempler in Madison County Illinois. Ida Scully is executrix. The notice sets January term at Edwardsville County Court House for claims and adjustments. Creditors should attend or pay indebtedness to the executrix. attorney C E Bircher. October 28, 1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Stempler
Madison and
Iminais
Madison County
Edwardsville
Ida Scully
C. E. Rircher
Citizens' Coal & Mining Company Dissolves at Oct Meeting
Public notice states that at a meeting of Citizens' Coal & Mining Company of Troy a Hing on October 13 71899 the corporation was unanimously dissolved effective from that date H Stien Hans president Gini Bussx secretary Terry Williamson attorneys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens’ Coal & Mining Company
Troy
A. D
Prriens
H. Stien Hans
Gini Bussx
Terry & Williamson
Thanksgiving Citizens Reflections From Troy Residents
A page of Thanksgiving notices shares brief thanks from local figures. Phil Zenk and others express gratitude for healthy crops, prosperity, peace, and community growth. Residents including Eckert, Jarvis, Kiesel, Winston, Canedy, Powell, Droll, Hampe, Auwarter, Braner, Hawley, McCollum, and Hawley offer thanks for health, new railroads, industry, employment, and civic progress in Troy, with pride in local institutions and future prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. G. Zenk
Troy
J. W. Garnet
Martha Winston
H. A. Canedy
M. W. Powell
Postminster
August Droll
Ila
M. F. Auwarter
the Cann
F. W. Braner
J. M. Hawley
C.S. McCollum
M. E
Vandalia Time Card Listing Trains For Vandalia
Rail time notice shows No 1 Vandalia Accom and No 8 Indianapolis Mail with daily and Sunday services including local freights. It lists stops only on flag and urges readers to consult agents Elliott in Troy Illinois and Chesbrough in St Louis for full timetable and rates. Sweet Tarragona soft shell almonds advertised at Konrgamana's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No. 1
Vandalia Accom
Ind
Sun
Indianapolis Mail
Also Mentioned on This Page
YL Raentemann
Kitvs Bark, Sr
Tuesaday
Mre
Dad Brown
Fred Liebler
Cora Granger
Gladdys Bryant
R. F. Auwarter
Shurtleff
Wm. Il. Vetter
John Meier
Aviston
Ernest Albrecht
Collinsville
W. J. Vetter
Theo Smith
Ignatius Riggin
Annie
Nellie Purviance
O'Fallon
John Holst
E.S. Donoho
IL. A. Risner
Springfield
J. N. Stienhans
N. C. Gerfen
A. Klein
Geo. Wittmann
A Heddergott and Son
Arthur
Kuntzmann’s
Hawley’s
Gertrude Robb
New Douglas
General News
New Athena
Fred BE. Scheel
Thos. M. Jett
George Jones
Mattoon
Mechanicsburg
Bunker Hill
Illinois
Eveless Adams
Thos
Rockwell
Klondike
Bond County
Stewart Drag Co
Carmi, Ill
The
Farmers’ Encyclopedia
Werner Company
Akron
Ohio
Giffen & Giffen
Rockwell and Fillmore Src
Ghicago, Ilt
Tebe
Phil. Zenk
Phil. Eckert
W. W. Jarvis
George Kiesel
Tam
Vandalia Lins
G. L. Elliott
Ilinorm
J. M. Chesbrough
Ass’t
Tarragona
Abmonds
Ff Konrgamana
Big Price
Faia
Goein
Gheorgeh Liebler
South Main Street
Merchant
A. Heddergott
E&land
Clay Street
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